Gyms & Fitness Centers in Clovis

Art "The Shark" Correa has a history of surmounting life's challenges in pursuit of his business and fitness goals. While earning his bachelor's degree in kinesiology—thereby becoming his family's first college graduate—Art yearned to apply his knowledge toward other people's physical betterment, and gained national certification as a personal trainer. He then used his health expertise to found The Bod-e² Shop, a wellness sanctuary for all fitness levels, and has since trained such elite clients as NFL players Zack Follett and Ricky Manning, Jr.

The Bod-e2 Shop functions as an all-purpose workout zone, manned by personal trainers and instructors who run kickboxing, Zumba, and intense boot-camp classes. Private sessions with the trainers can focus on sports-performance or toning goals, providing encouragement with motivating words rather than drill sergeant mantras or shyly suggestive fireworks displays. The gym's roster of advanced equipment has been highlighted on KMPH's Valley Life, and includes core-tightening air benches alongside Jacob's Ladder, a machine whose cycling rungs simulate climbing.

In 1976, educator, musician, and kinesiologist Robin Wes longed for a children's gym that prioritized personal growth over competition. Unveiled at a time when physical-education classes pushed students to focus almost exclusively on winning, Robin's program was swiftly adopted and is now used in more than 300 Little Gyms worldwide. Robin still pens original music to accompany lessons, which engage whippersnappers 4 months old–12 years old with gymnastics, dance, karate, and parent and child activities.

Each of The Little Gym's classes introduces simple movements that sharpen motor skills and set brains whirring, allowing kids to progress at their own pace until they can finally build a computer out of macaroni and glitter. Staff members strive to build a base for lifelong social skills and self-assurance with each exercise, including activities rooted purely in fun, such as summer camps or birthday parties, which helped The Little Gym to earn title of #1 Birthday Chain in Parents Magazine.

Fitness Together's encouraging team of personal trainers helps exercisers achieve new physical peaks with one-on-one workout sessions and nutritional advising tailored specifically to each individual. The path to a healthier lifestyle becomes less foggy and riddled with bacon-encrusted bacon as the fitness gurus devise custom blends of cardio and weight-training routines, which challenge clients at their own skill levels. To ensure participants stay on track, fitness coaches reevaluate and revise personal training programs every six to eight weeks, tweaking reps and adjusting caloric intake to suit the client’s progress. Nutritional programs supplement exercising and help clients shed inches through a more balanced diet.

At My Gym Clovis, an imagination-sized playscape opens before kids as they slip down slides, bound into ball pits, soar on the swings, and gambol on the trampoline. Age-appropriate classes help them make the most of the colorful space, ensuring that the littlest tyke never has to compete with larger, 300-year-old tortoises for toys. The youngest students start exploring sound and movement with their parents at six weeks old, and kids up to 13 years old boost their strength, flexibility, and cardio fortitude during fitness games. Lessons on healthy living teach kids to eschew sedentary activities such as watching TV and peeling paint with their laser vision in favor of more active endeavors. During the gym's free-play sessions, kids have their run of the place and burn off stores of excess energy, and My Gym Clovis also hosts fun, energetic birthday parties.

Inside George Brown Fitness, ISSA-certified personal trainer Scott Sherman leads his students toward their fitness goals with little more than some sets of straps and a will to succeed. An independent trainer, Scott often meets clients in-studio or outdoors in the fresh air, under the nonjudgmental sun, where he helps people of all sorts get in shape, from teens and new moms to conditioned athletes looking to progress in their sport. Sessions vary, but Scott often calls upon exercises such as heavy-rope training, sit-ups and body-weight moves, and TRX suspension training to mold his clients’ physiques.

Yosemite Fitness offers family-friendly classes in a welcoming environment. Hard-working architectural titans have harnessed faux-granite mountain faces and ceilinged skies to create one of the only indoor rock-climbing gyms in the area, providing a socially and muscularly stimulating workout setting that’s accessible seven days a week. There are no age or weight restrictions, and aspiring ascenders can choose the automatic belay option—which requires no instruction—for immediate face scaling. Or, opt for manual belay and attend the one-hour rock climbing 101 training session to learn safety techniques and climbing tricks garnered from notoriously close-mouthed mountain goats. Whichever way you opt to climb, Yosemite's helpful staff will soon have you facing off against yodeling barbershop quartets in rope-secured vertical races.